This book is designed to help the reader develop a way of thinking about multivariate statistics as well as to understand in a broader and more intuitive sense what the procedures do and how their results are interpreted presenting important procedures of multivariate statistical theory geometrically the author hopes that this emphasis on the geometry will give the reader a coherent picture . The geometry of multivariate statistics by wickens thomas d 1994 hardcover books amazonca. Pa traditional approach to developing multivariate statistical theory is algebraic sets of observations are represented by matrices linear combinations are formed from these matrices by multiplying them by coefficient matrices and useful statistics are found by imposing various criteria of optimization on these combinations matrix algebra is the vehicle for these calculations a second . The geometry of multivariate statistics by thomas d wickens 1994 12 01 thomas d wickens books amazonca. Book description a traditional approach to developing multivariate statistical theory is algebraic sets of observations are represented by matrices linear combinations are formed from these matrices by multiplying them by coefficient matrices and useful statistics are found by imposing various criteria of optimization on these combinations